http://effluency.net thought streams Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:54:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I reformatted the peakbagging list (link at right). Two more NH 4000'ers are definitely on deck: Wildcat and Cabot. Wildcat is the target for this years Flags on the 48 hike. Cabot is the target for a North Country "hookie hike" with my friend Gary. We started this ... http://effluency.net/archives/263 My wife suffered some kind of very painful abdominal episode this past Sunday.  Since then, we've been going to doctor's appointments and clinics to get lab work done.  So far, nothing definite has been diagnosed. Next on the list is an ultrasound for her gall bladder, more blood tests and an ... http://effluency.net/archives/262 My wife and I have been trying to get rid of all the excess stuff we've accumulated over the years.  While going through our stacks of books to sell at a local yard sale, I found a few Kerouac novels that I'd never gotten around to reading.  So, I picked ... http://effluency.net/archives/261 I rebuilt my peakbagging list by encoding all the peak information in a Ruby script and then using another Ruby script to generate the HTML that WordPress' editor is supposed to handle.  It's not perfect.  It's missing the statistics and I'm not completely happy with the layout.  But it'll do ... http://effluency.net/archives/260 On Saturday, July 26th, Chuck Rowe and I hiked up Mount Osceola via the Mount Osceola Trail. Well, officially, it's the Mount Osceola Trail. On this particular day, it was the Osceola Brook Trail. Last week's rains left the trail a wet mess, especially the lower sections. There were quite a ... http://effluency.net/archives/259 Their new and improved visual editor ate my peakbagging list.  Completely.  Hours and hours of work gone.  You would think that by 2008 we wouldn't have editors that eviscerate your data.  You'd be wrong.  If you have fairly complex table-driven data in an attached web page to your blog, do ... http://effluency.net/archives/258 I took a break from game engine coding to finish one of the many pet projects I had before accepting that new job.  PGN Viewer is a chess game player which can read, analyze and playback a chess game based on its PGN data.  Unlike most other PGN viewers, my ... http://effluency.net/archives/257 As of Saturday, June 21, I accepted the role of Lead Developer for a brand new computer game company.  Due to the cutthroat nature of the gaming industry, I cannot go into detail regarding the name of the company nor the subject matter of any of its initial products.  About ... http://effluency.net/archives/255 I updated my peakbagging list at right. It now includes the mountains of the Wapack Range. http://effluency.net/archives/254 This year's Father's Day was the best ever. Because of the Sunday's nasty weather, it wound up being a full Father's Day weekend, which probably requires some explanation. A couple of weeks ago, my wife asked me what I wanted for Father's Day. Now, I'm not a "Hallmark Holiday" ... http://effluency.net/archives/253